This is a great night of relatively new talent from the Cardiff Comedy Festival. Angela Barnes and Romesh Ranganathan both participated in last year's BBC New Comedy Award, Angela as the eventual winner, Romesh as a heat runner-up and are both very funny. Angela Barnes has a great edginess to her and has a way of making you think she's already hit a mediocre punchline only to follow it up with a bigger, better one. It's almost a "BOGOF" on your laughs, so if nothing else you know you will always get value for money - and who isn't motivated by the chance to save money nowadays?
I saw Romesh Ranganathan perform shortly after the New Comedy Award and I was really hoping to have seen more of him over the year to watch him develop. He was very funny, drawing on his life experiences and referring to racial stereotypes within his family without making the guilt-by-association assumption that his mostly white audience would be inherently racist as I have seen many times before.From the very beginning, both have stepped onto the stage confidently and delivered great comedy and I am really looking forward to seeing more from them in the future.
At just twenty, Patrick Morris is quite the comedy baby. Nevertheless, he delivers a self-assured set perfectly timed in a way that you feel even his pauses have been professionally rehearsed. One problem with this can be that the act is thrown when something interupts that flow and that was very much the case when I saw him perform, but that is something experience alone can correct and I am sure even by now he will have outgrown it.Definitely a show to watch! Tickets only £6... proper bargain!
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11th July ~ Chapter Arts
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